The Englishwoman In America By Isabella Lucy Bird
























































































































 -  I was scarcely able to
decide whether this proof of the reliance to be placed upon physiognomy
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I Was Scarcely Able To Decide Whether This Proof Of The Reliance To Be Placed Upon Physiognomy Was Not An Adequate Compensation For The Annoyance I Was Experiencing, At The Probability Of My Hoarded Treasures Falling Into The Hands Of An Adventurer.

During the morning we crossed some prairie-country, and stopped at several stations, patches of successful cultivation showing that there must be cultivators, though I rarely saw their habitations.

The cars still continued so full that my friends could not join me, and I began to be seriously anxious about the fate of my luggage. At mid-day, spires and trees, and lofty blocks of building, rising from a grass-prairie on one side, and from the blue waters of Lake Michigan on the other, showed that we were approaching Chicago. Along beaten tracks through the grass, waggons with white tilts drawn by oxen were proceeding west, sometimes accompanied by armed horsemen.

With a whoop like an Indian war-whoop the cars ran into a shed - they stopped - the pickpocket got up - I got up too - the baggage-master came to the door: "This gentleman has the checks for my baggage," said I, pointing to the thief. Bewildered, he took them from his waistcoat-pocket, gave them to the baggage-master, and went hastily away. I had no inclination to cry "Stop thief!" and had barely time to congratulate myself on the fortunate impulse which had led me to say what I did, when my friends appeared from the next car.

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